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Originally Posted by epchick
I guess I see the battle of the Alamo different than the American Revolution. Maybe it's the way that both battles have been taught to me throughout my schooling. Never did we ever think that the colonists were these poor innocent people who just wanted to be free from big bad ol' England. But that's the way the Battle of the Alamo (and all the info leading up to it) was taught to us. I don't consider those men "heroes."
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I'm pretty sure I didn't say anyone was poor, or innocent - just that they wished to govern themselves after feeling they were not being treated as equal to citizens in the motherland.
Look at the way the colonists were treated by the Mexican government - how about the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin? They were willing to die for a cause to which they were committed. But to each his own.
It may be that my research as a living historian - and being married to a history major and being surrounded by both tons of books and having the good fortune to socialize with a former head of the Texas Historical Society and several Texian scholars of note has given me a perspective that is more finely nuanced than those who had learned it in jr. high or high school. I freely admit that having a grandfather in the SRT and First Families of Texas means that I have a definite bias, but I do think there isn't that big a difference between the motivations behind those who fought for freedom for Mexico, Texas, and the United States. I believe it possible to find heroes in all three revolutions. Mexicans themselves later turned on Santa Anna, which should say something about his reign and treatment of his fellow citizens.
You do realize that you now forfeit your Texas citizenship, don't you?
Can't trust those El Paso people . . .
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